Severing the bonds of friendship and family is an important goal of totalitarianism. Nothing is more important than politics. Your ideological comrades are your REAL family. Totalitarian regimes make a point of forcing you to denounce friends and family to prove your allegiance.
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1481855407303897089
This is one reason the Left goes after kids so hard with garbage like trans fascism, critical race theory, etc. They want the kids to denounce their families and accept ideological purity as more important than personal loyalty. Russian and Chinese Communists do the same thing
That's also one reason traditional families were attacked with such ferocity in popular culture over the past few decades. Family bad, State good. Do the "right thing" and denounce your regressive, hypocritical, corrupt family to embrace the progressive crusade.
It's a win for totalitarians when they can get people to publicly denounce their friends and family. It reinforces the notion that EVERYTHING is political. Nothing is truly private or insulated from ideology. There are no intimate settings in which wrongthink is tolerated. /end
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